Dr. Rolena Adorno: What Does Columbus Day Mean Now?

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Scholars and Censors of General History of Peru (1611-1613) by Fray Martín de Murúa

Este trabajo se ocupa de dos aspectos relacionados con la Historia General del Perú(1611-1613) de fray Martín de Murúa. El primero atiende a los dos manuscritos conocidos de la crónica y a las varias ediciones del texto. El segundo, a la censura a que fue sometido el libro, censura que, según la autora, no ha sido considerada hasta hoy en las ediciones conocidas de la obra de Murúa. Sobre este segundo aspecto, se destacan algunos ejemplos de la censura de tipo inquisitorial y también política.This study cover two aspects related to the General History of Peru (1611-1613) by Fray Martín de Murúa. First point deals with the two known manuscripts of the chronicle and the various editions of the text. The second to the censorship to which the book was submitted, censorship that, according to the author, has not been considered until today in the known editions of Murúa's work. In this second aspect some examples of the inquisitorial and also political censorship are highlighted

New World Civitas, Contested Jurisdictions and Intercultural Conversation in the Construction of the Spanish Monarchy

Jurisdictional frontiers were created, contested, and negotiated among a wide range of actors, including native Americans and Europeans, with reference to the cities founded in Castilla del Oro (roughly present-day Panama). This research deals, first, with the reshaping of the concept of a city in the New World, based on its inhabitants' sense of civitas. It analyses, secondly, the creation and redefinition of jurisdiction during political conflicts and, third, the construction and maintenance of jurisdiction through local relations with indigenous populations described as "conversation". The analysis of the creation and preservation of local jurisdictions allows for an interpretation of the complexities involved in the configuration of political power and political space from below in the territories claimed by the Spanish Monarchy.Art Empir

La historia de los incas narrada desde el norte: releyendo a Prescott

En Las crónicas y los Andes (1995a), Franklin Pease G. Y. se reveló una vez más como un lector asiduo de William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859), anotando meticulosamente el uso de las fuentes cronísticas en su Historia de la conquista del Perú (1847; ver Fig. 1). De esta manera destacaba la importancia de Prescott para la historiografía peruana. Guillermo Lohmann Villena (1959b: 5) también ha señalado la trascendental influencia de las obras del historiador norteamericano, “a causa de que en e..